On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: > > Not related to WiMax but Reliance Broadband help desk told one of > > my colleague that she needed to buy a static ip address (Rs. 2K/yr) > > to send outgoing messages from Thunderbird client over port 25. > > Ditto for Outlook. :( > > Nowadays, all SMTP submission is done over SSL port which is > generally 993. You need Port 25 only if you want to run your own mail > server or your mail provider does not give secure submission. > > Please check if the other SMTP submission port(s) are open.
Won't help, since you still need to make an SMTP connection, and then negotiate it (using STARTTLS) into a TLS connection. I don't believe there's any way to start a TLS connection directly, though I wuld be happy to be proven wrong. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
